Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1963-1966)

892

JUNE MEETING, 1965

strenuous competition for personnel. His guidance in developing the novel programs
in astronautical and atomic engineering was particularly fruitful. In his personal
associations, he was ever genial, kindly, and gracious.
The Regents of the University are sensible of the grief his colleagues feel when
they contemplate his passing, and of their deep sense of gratitude to him for his
leadership. On behalf of the entire University community, they would now pay
tribute to his personal worth and his many accomplishments, and would mourn the
cutting off of his life short of its mead of retirement and rest. To Mrs. Attwood and
his children, they tender their deepest and most heartfelt sympathy.
J. A. Henkel: The friends and associates of John Aloysius Henkel, Assistant Professor of
Memoir Dentistry and practicing orthodontist in Ann Arbor, are mourning his death on the
evening of Memorial Day at the age of sixty-six.
A graduate of the School of Dentistry in the Class of 1927, Dr. Henkel began
his Ann Arbor practice six years later. Earning a master's degree in orthodontics in
February of 1946, he thereafter practiced that specialty and offered instruction in it
in the Dental School. During a subsequent transitional period, when his department
was without a head, he characteristically undertook responsibilities far beyond the
demands of formal duty, working to preserve and strengthen the departmental
organization.
His expertness and devotion advanced the program of instruction in orthodontics at every level and told favorably upon the practice of orthodontics throughout
the state. His personal kindness and helpfulness further won him a host of friends,
both among his colleagues and among the young men whom he taught.
The Regents of the University would join these friends in expressing grateful
and respectful esteem for his memory, and in extending their deepest sympathy to
Mrs. Henkel and the other surviving members of his family.
D. S. Fisher: Dale Scott Fisher, Research Assistant in the Institute of Science and TechnolMemoir ogy, died in an accident on the sixth of June while in Thailand on a University
research program. Mr. Fisher, thirty-six years old, died instantly as the result of a
fall when a portion of the roof of a hangar upon which he was working collapsed
beneath him.
Born and raised in Michigan, Mr. Fisher first joined the University as a technician in 1956, and rose through the various nonacademic ranks to earn meritorious
promotion to Research Assistant in 1961, though not possessing the baccalaureate
degree normally required to achieve this academic rank. A nationally known
authority on technological aspects of infrared reconnaissance, Mr. Fisher has been
engaged in University infrared physics research programs in Greenland, Alaska,
Puerto Rico, U. S. Canal Zone, and Thailand, as well as in the continental United
States. Throughout the years, he won the commendation and respect of his supervisors and colleagues for his diligence, technical ability, and for the example he set
young engineers. The Office of the Secretary of Defense has conveyed condolences
to his family, and declared itself "most appreciative of the vital contribution that
Mr. Fisher made to a most important research project." A similar expression of
condolence was received from the Air Force Systems Command, with a conclusion
that his "significant contributions to the defense effort in the research and development area have been exemplary."
The Regents of the University join his colleagues in lamenting the early death
of this most able man. To Mrs. Fisher, their children, and his surviving relatives,
they express their deepest sympathy.
Off-Campus The following staff members were assigned to duty off campus
Assignments (p. 800):
John B. Burch, Associate Professor of Zoology and Curator of Mollusks, Museum
of Zoology, July 16, 1965, to November 19, 1965
George M. Gillespie, Assistant Professor of Dental Public Health, June 28, 1965,
to August 20, 1965
Vincent Massey, Professor of Biological Chemistry, June 16, 1965, to August 16,
1965
James Olds, Professor of Psychology, August 26, 1965, through September 20, 1965
Konstantin Scharenberg, Consultant to the Mental Health Research Institute
(p. 885), May 25, 1965, to September 25, 1965
Ralph R. Stewart, Research Associate, University Herbarium, summer term of the
University year 1965-66